November 2009.
Students have just finished flag football. Learning football formations, pass routes, how to throw a football, how to snap the football to the quaterback, how to play offense and defense.
Next, we are starting basketball. Students will be learning many aspects of the game of basketball. They will be learning how to dribble, pass, shoot, play offense, play defense-learn man to man and zone defenses.
February 2010
Students will be enjoying the game of Street Hockey. Students are learning how to play team hockey on the blacktop outside the multi-purpose room. They are learning how to shoot, pass, play offense and defense. Playing shifts of 3 to 4 minutes, they rotate lines and positions. Students enjoy listening to music while the games are in play and after every score the Horn blows and the hockey goal song fills the air.... HEY! Bradley Students.... We Love Hockey!
Students can look forward to more indoor games using scooters, jump ropes, hula hoops and other fun equipment as the rainy days happen. Outdoor games of cooperative learning, ball handling, traditional school games, along with games we can do on the fields of: Ultimate Frisbee, Frisbee golf, and more.
March
The students look forward in starting softball, which will happen in the later half of the month, as they are getting ready to start little league and softball leagues in April. Other games take place on the fields are Rocks, Frisbee games, Capture the Flag, Battle Royal dodge ball games, track and field and the beginning of the California Physical Fitness Testing for ALL Fifth Graders, and participation in the President's Phyiscal Fitness Challenge for the Fourth and Sixth grades.
Overview of Phyiscal Education
Primary Grades
Classroom teachers provide a variety of PE activities in the primary grades. State required minutes are satisfied by team sports, cooperative games, and games organized around specific PE skills. New equipment was purchased this year for primary PE activities and is centrally located for easy check-out.
Intermediate Grades
Our 90% release time teacher Bill Bunner provides a top quality, standards-based Physical Education program for students grades 4-6. The Physical Education program includes standards-based activities incorporating soccer, basketball, football, volleyball, rhythm and movement, dance, exercises, and stretching, California 5th Grade physical fitness testing, “PE Central”, " PE Challenge" , the "President's Physical Fitness Challenge". Students also learn cooperative games such as Ultimate Frisbee, Frisbee Golf, relay games and the ever popular "Rocks!" game. Each year, an equipment fund is allotted through the Home and School Club fund-raisers to support the program. This program satisfies the state required PE minutes.
Sports Spirit Day
Teachers also coordinate our annual Sports Spirit Day when students visit twelve different physical activity stations to celebrate the end of the school year.
Walk for the Arts
Teachers also coordinate the Walk for the Arts event each year. Students received pledges for the number of laps they walk during the event. Proceeds are used to hire resident artists from the community to support our Visual and Performing Arts programs.